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Four Killed in Plane Crash Near Steamboat Springs, Colo.

The plane crashed in remote mountain terrain at about 12:20 a.m. on Friday “under unknown circumstances,” according to the National Transportation Safety Board.

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A small plane crashed in a remote wilderness area south of Steamboat Springs, Colo., early on Friday morning.
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U.N. Condemns U.S. Measures Halting Oil Deliveries to Cuba

The measures were installed last month by the Trump administration after the U.S. captured Nicolás Maduro and seized control of Venezuela’s oil industry.

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A street in Santa Cruz del Norte, Cuba, this month during a scheduled outage as part of energy rationing.
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Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ Said to Raise Billions in First Pledges for Gaza

The United Arab Emirates and the United States have each committed more than $1 billion to President Trump’s new international initiative, officials said.

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Children collecting paper and plastic at a garbage dump in Gaza last month. Vast sections of the territory were destroyed in the war.
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A Climate Supercomputer Is Getting New Bosses. It’s Not Clear Who.

The National Science Foundation said management of the machine, used by researchers for forecasts, disaster warnings and pure science, would be transferred to a “third-party operator.”

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The supercomputer is currently run from the National Center for Atmospheric Research headquarters in Boulder, Colo.
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The Mutually Beneficial Ties Between Jeffrey Epstein and Thorbjorn Jagland

Thorbjorn Jagland, a former prime minister of Norway who led the Nobel Committee, promised influence, and the disgraced financier had gifts to give, new emails show.

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Thorbjorn Jagland, center left, a former prime minister of Norway, in Oslo on Thursday. A recently released tranche of emails revealed his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
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White House Sees Win After 2 Strong Economic Reports

Solid jobs data and a soft inflation reading for January are welcome news for President Trump. But the bigger economic picture is less encouraging.

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“President Trump has defeated Joe Biden’s inflation crisis,” a White House spokesman said this week. The bigger economic picture is more uncertain.
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AOC Ties Inequality to Rise of Authoritarians at Munich Security Conference

Speaking at a security conference, the New York progressive argued that “extreme levels of income inequality lead to social instability” and eventually far-right populism.

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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York spoke at a town-hall panel on populism on Friday at the Munich Security Conference.
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Virginia’s Top Court Clears Path for Democratic Push to Redraw House Map

The State Supreme Court allowed a spring statewide referendum that is necessary for Democrats to redraw Virginia’s congressional map before the midterm elections.

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The Virginia Supreme Court left unsettled the legality of a bid by the state’s Democratic-led legislature to overhaul the House map in the party’s favor.
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A Surge of ICE Arrests Overwhelms the Federal Court System

A surge of immigration arrests in the state sent thousands of people to detention centers in Texas, New Mexico and elsewhere. Federal courts have been overwhelmed with their pleas for release.

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“Even if the constant emergency of this siege ends now,” said Graham Ojala-Barbour, an immigration lawyer from St. Paul, Minn., “we still have a lot of fallout from it.”
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German Officials Needle Trump at Munich Security Conference

Friedrich Merz, the chancellor of Germany, said that under President Trump, the United States’ claim to global leadership “has been challenged, and possibly squandered.”

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Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany speaking at the Munich Security Conference, on Friday.
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As Diplomats Talk, Pentagon Prepares for Possible War With Iran

President Trump threatened to strike Iran, but the military has needed time to build up its forces in the region.

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People in Tehran walk on U.S. and Israeli flags during a march to commemorate the 47th anniversary of Iran’s Islamic revolution. Senior officials said Mr. Trump had not decided whether he would strike Iran.
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Trump’s Minnesota Retreat Points to the Power of Public Anger

The withdrawal came as polls show Americans opposing the president’s immigration tactics, and as some Republican lawmakers began to find ways to distance themselves.

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The Trump administration said on Thursday that it was winding down its deployment of immigration agents to Minnesota.
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Venezuela’s Natural Gas, Not Oil, Might Be a Big Early Prize

The South American country has natural gas that could be extracted and exported quickly, but U.S. sanctions, which are now being eased, have stymied development.

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A liquefied natural gas terminal in Trinidad and Tobago, a country that has the infrastructure that Venezuela needs to bring its vast reserves of natural gas to market.
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Amid Fallout From Epstein Files, Dubai’s DP World Boss Is Replaced

Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem was credited with turning the state-backed DP World into a global logistics powerhouse. He was recently identified in correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein.

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Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem in 2022. He was identified this week in files related to Mr. Epstein.
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Looks Aren’t Everything? Clavicular Begs to Differ.

Braden Peters, known as Clavicular, has emerged as a beacon for a group of narcissistic, status-obsessed young men. He wants to take his fixation with “looksmaxxing” mainstream.

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The 20-year-old streamer goes to extremes to achieve an ideal of male beauty, but that’s not the only reason he’s become an online sensation.
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San Francisco Teachers End Strike After 4 Days

Public schools are expected to reopen on Wednesday for 50,000 students in the city. Teachers demanded higher wages and health care benefits.

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San Francisco teachers went on strike this week for the first time since 1979 in pursuit of higher wages and health care benefits.
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